A silver apple falls. There, amongst the branches, the mother sits. Weaver of dreams against the weft of the wood, Insight falls like gentle rain on a moon-bathed garden. – Song to Hecate, by Alison Jones Now we make ready for the great festival of Imbolc, sometimes called Candlemas or Brigid. In many places, the … Read more
Brighid of the Mantles encompass us Lady of the Lambs protect us Keeper of the Hearth kindle us Beneath your mantle gather us And Restore us to memory. ~ from An Invocation to Brighid, by Rowan Fairgrove In addition to declaring this year a celebration of my fortieth anniversary as a Tarot reader, I am … Read more
The Gardener of Eden from Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 by James Broughton (1913-1999) I am the old dreamer who never sleeps I am timekeeper of the timeless dance I preserve the long rhythms of the earth and fertilize the rounds of desire In my evergreen arboretum I raise flowering hopes for the … Read more
With the New Moon and the beginning of the Year of the Water Dragon, I am launching a year of celebrations, in honor of it being my fortieth anniversary with the Tarot. I bought the deck I featured on Wednesday back in 1972, and it was true love from then on. I’d had a fling … Read more
How is your New Year going? Have your good intentions slipped a little? Wishing you could get a new start now, instead of on the tail end of holiday exhaustion? Well, your wish is granted! It’s New Year’s Eve, again! Tonight, in the wee hours of 2:39 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time), Jan. 23, we celebrate … Read more
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~ Abraham Lincoln, Sun in Aquarius Happy Birthday to all the free spirits and visionaries of this iconoclastic sign, for they are pointing the way to the turning of the Age for us all. Aquarians are true originals. They love to think outside … Read more
Poem (the spirit likes to dress up) by Mary Oliver The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest at night in the black branches, in the morning in the blue branches of the world. It could float, of course, but would rather plumb rough matter. Airy … Read more
Maybe you’ve already heard about this.. Maybe you don’t think it’s that important, or people are exaggerating. But it is true. The access to the Internet that we love and take for granted is threatened in ways absolutely unprecedented. Your urgent action is needed. PROTECT-IP is yet another bill whose name makes it sound like … Read more
UPDATE only a few hours after my original post: